Voice Recognition Software

[Bob Rasmussen]

I'll add my 2 cents worth, having had an eye on this technology for many 
years.

I assume you're talking about filePro running directly on the client, and 
not a terminal emulation topology, is that right?

Windows itself is a player in this market. In the Control Panel, see the 
Speech Recognition applet. The technology in Windows 7 (at least) allows 
untrained, talker-independent recognition, but also lets the user train 
the software for better recognition accuracy. In Windows 8, I have read 
that the recognition accuracy took a significant upward jump, but I have 
not verified this.

My experiments (at various times) have confirmed that a head-mounted 
microphone greatly improves recognition accuracy. These devices are quite 
inexpensive. Buy several and try them out.

Once accuracy is good, the difficulty is in command and control, 
especially navigating and correcting. For instance, filePro doesn't have 
an "Undo" feature, but the voice recognizer (VR) may expect it to, and 
send a ctrl-Z. Also, navigating from field to field is not done as 
expected.

My experience has, of course, been mainly with Anzio (terminal emulation). 
It's probably time for me to look at this again. If anyone is seriously 
interested in exploring VR for use with Anzio and filePro, please let me 
know and we can collaborate.

On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, SmittyUSN1 wrote:

> Has anybody on the  filePro list had any luck with using voice recognition
> software that allows input into data base fields, word processors,
> spreadsheets, etc., etc.,  a customer has asked me to look into using it for
> possible use with fp.   "Dragon Speaks" is the first one that comes to my
> mind that will work with  most versions of  Windows.   I appreciate any
> experiences you may have.
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
>
> Wayne Smith
> Port Orange, Florida
>
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